The Kitchen plans opening week in Fort Collins

A board at The Kitchen Boulder shows the restaurant’s farm-to-table philosophy. The Kitchen Fort Collins will open at the northeast corner of Mountain and College Avenues in June.
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Boulder-based restaurant The Kitchen has set tentative opening dates for its Fort Collins restaurant, now under construction at the northeast corner of College and Mountain avenues.

The farm-to-table restaurant will open June 18 for a ticketed fundraiser, June 20-21 for two days of pay-what-you-want service and finally on June 23, returning to normal prices, for a grand opening.

Proceeds from the restaurant’s June 18 ticketed event and pay-what-you-want days will go to the restaurant’s nonprofit affiliate, The Kitchen Community, which is working to set up Learning Gardens in Fort Collins schools. The first Learning Garden will be planted at Bauder Elementary at the end of May.

The Kitchen Community has already installed 167 Learning Gardens in schools across the country, and at the company’s most recent restaurant opening, in Glendale, customers donated more than $100,000 to area Learning Gardens.

Once open, the Fort Collins location will be the sixth restaurant for The Kitchen; openings at Denver’s Union Station and in Chicago will follow this summer and in the fall, respectively.

Fort Collins will be the third city, following Boulder and Denver, to open the original Kitchen. The brand also has two other concepts, a wine lounge called Upstairs and a more casual pub called Next Door, both named for their locations by The Kitchen on Boulder’s Pearl Street.

For tickets to the June 18 Learning Garden fundraiser, contact dev@thekitchencommunity.org.